PJL: December 2013 (Part 2)

Curated by Mikko Takkunen, a collection of the best photojournalism around the web from the past two weeks.

Features and Essays

Jerome Delay / AP

Jerome Delay: Central African Crisis (NYT Lens blog) Includes interview with photographer. More of his work also on the Guardian website here

Marcus Bleasdale: Chaos in CAR (VII) The Central Africa Republic is aflame with violence as ethnic tensions between a primarily Christian population and the newly empowered Muslim Seleka Rebel group reach a boiling point

Andrew Moore: This Is What It Looks Like at the Center of America (NYT Magazine) Moore has spent eight years photographing the area west of the 100th meridian, the territory formerly known as the Great American Desert, which remains one of the most sparsely populated regions in the country

Alec Soth: The Wandering Spirit (The New Yorker Photo Booth) Part of new long term project documenting America in collaboration with writer Brad Zellar

Todd Heisler / The New York Times

Todd Heisler: Once Around an Island (NYT) Twenty hours. More than 30 miles of coastline. Dozens of moments captured. The photographer Todd Heisler walked the perimeter of Manhattan over the course of one day in August

Todd Heisler: Gun Country (NYT) The United States continues to love and revile its hundreds of millions of firearms. Here is a look at that complicated relationship, told through the personal stories of Americans

Laura Morton: The Social Stage (Inge Morath Foundation) San Francisco’s high society

Marcus Bleasdale (National Geographic Live! on Youtube) Bleasdale wants to make people angry; as angry as he is about Africa’s first world war and the surprising way in which we are funding this violence